Team News Riveting
Coimbatore, October 25
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) suspects a planning of a terror strike similar to Sri Lanka’s Easter bombings in South India.
The federal investigating agency started the preliminary investigation into the car blast in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore that took place on Sunday. The Tamil Nadu Police investigation has also found that Jashmee Mubin had tried to establish contacts with some terror elements including the main conspirator behind the Easter Day bombing in Sri Lanka.
Jashmee Mubin was killed in the car blast that happened on October 23. The police are investigating whether the car blast was a suicide attack or an accidental gas cylinder explosion. The explosion happened at 4 am on Sunday near the famous Eeswaran temple at Ukkadam.
The body of a 25-year-old Jameesha Mubin was recovered from the blast site. The Tamil Nadu Police have arrested five persons in connection with the incident, said officials here on Tuesday. The arrested have been identified as Mohammed Talka, Mohammed Azharuddin, Mohamed Navas Ismail, Mohammed Riyas and Firoze Ismail.
Ukkadam is a highly sensitive area of Coimbatore and was the centre of action in the 1996 Coimbatore blasts leading to the death of 56 people and injuring more than 200.
Meanwhile, state BJP leader K Annamalai on Tuesday termed the Coimbatore car explosion as module of “ISIS suicide bomb attack” and a complete failure of the state government and the state police department’s intelligence mechanism. Annamalai told the reporters at the party headquarters that he had written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagging some of the crucial shortcomings in the state police’s approach in handling the case.
